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I don't know about businesses but I also think that international passengers travel is an important part of world peace. Being able to visit other countries and
by Iv 7y ago
I don't know about businesses but I also think that international passengers travel is an important part of world peace. Being able to visit other countries and learn about different cultures really brings intolerance and nationalism down.
I wish it was mandatory for every student to visit two or three very different countries during their studies.
I understand the emissions are problematic and we need to cut them down. I like the idea of forbidding or de-incentivizing air travel on short trips when a rail alternative exists. I just wish we put that at the bottom of the priority list. Remove coal plants and fuel cars first.
- dingaling 7y ago> I wish it was mandatory for every student to visit two or three very different countries during their studies. That was common in the 80s & 90s but we did it wearing a backpack and hopping on buses and coaches and sleeper trains; air travel was much too expensive back then. That's in contrast to modern Ryanair-style stag-party 'tourism' where students descend on a city for a few days and then zip back home.
- Iv 7y agoBuses and backpack won't expose you to different culture. Esp, in a country as big as the US. Unless you live close to the southern border, you won't even be exposed to people speaking a different language, which is an important thing to experience.
- PeterStuer 7y agoWe travel to get away from the hell holes we created locally, just to then turn those destinations into carbon copies of the places we were trying to escape from.